ROCK the Test Week 1

What does the word feeble mean in the paragraph below?

A small boy had wondered away from his family at their hunting cabin in the forest. The police, search and rescue teams, and local citizens had been looking for him for over twenty-four hours. Suddenly, from a small grove of trees, someone heard a feeble cry for help. After many hours without food or water, the small child was exhausted and dehydrated. Rescuers were barely able to hear him and found him just in the nick of time.

• not good enough

• horrible

• very weak

• loud

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CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Which of the following sentences uses the underlined word correctly?

• I left the hammer and nails over their.

• They're coming over tonight after the game.

• You too are the smartest students in class.

• You're science project received first place.

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CCSS.L.4.1G

CCSS.L.K.4A

Read the following selection and answer the question that follows.

Lincoln Logs

If you have ever built a small house or building using a toy that consisted of miniature notched logs, then you probably know what a Lincoln Log is. Lincoln Logs were invented sometime around 1916 by John Lloyd Wright. John was working in Tokyo, Japan on the Imperial Hotel that was designed by his father. The foundation of the hotel was built using interlocking log beams that made the structure earthquake-proof. When he returned to the U.S., John began a toy company called the Red Square Toy Company. He wanted to design a construction toy that used the same principles of the interlocking log beams his father had used. With this in mind, he began making and manufacturing Lincoln Logs. They toy came with the instructions on how to build a miniature version of Abraham Lincoln's cabin. This is how Lincoln Logs got their name. Over the years, Lincoln Logs have become a very popular toy with many generations of children around the world.

WHAT IS THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE MOSTLY ABOUT?

• what you can build with Lincoln Logs

• the origin of the Lincoln Log toy

• how similar Lincoln Logs are to a building in Tokyo

• the year Lincoln Logs were invented

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is the correct way to write the underlined phrase?

After about an hour of digging, I saw a brown, tiny, round stone the size of a freckle.

• a tiny, round, brown stone

• a brown, round, tiny stone

• a round, tiny, brown stone

• a round, brown, tiny stone

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

The Microwave

(1) Cooking technology has changed drastically over the last century. In colonial America, pioneers cooked over a campfire or a fireplace in a log cabin. In the 1800s, wood-burning and coal-burning stoves were used in homes. Lighter, compact, and efficient gas ranges became available in the early 1900s. But in-home cooking really took a leap forward with the invention of the microwave in 1945, although they didn't become commonplace in houses until the late 1970s.

(2) No longer did popcorn have to be cooked on a stove top in an oil-coated pan. Consumers just had to take off the plastic wrapper and toss the bag of kernels into the microwave. A roast that took five hours to cook on the stove top, could now be cooked in less than an hour. Reheating any dish could be done with the snap of a finger. On a traditional stovetop, reheating would have been time consuming and messy. Few advances in food preparation have been as impactful on the American household as the microwave oven.

In paragraph 2, a compare-and-contrast pattern is used to organize the ideas the paragraph mainly to -

• show differences between fireplace cooking and microwave preparation

• emphasize how a popular invention has helped people cook roasts faster

• highlight the advantages of owning the newest technology

• describe the differences regarding the traditional stove and the microwave oven

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CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

Clouds are formed in the following way. First, water on the ground evaporates and turns into vapor. Next, the vapor condenses into tiny droplets and forms clouds. Finally, the clouds lose the water in the form of precipitation.

• Problem and solution

• Sequence

• Description

• Compare and Contrast

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CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

Jeff's father was IRATE because Jeff talked back to him and had a bad attitude all day long.

• happy

• not bothered

• angry

• tired

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CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go. As he crossed a narrow bridge, he looked down and saw his reflection in the quiet water as if in a mirror. But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own. If he had stopped to think he would have known better. But instead of thinking, he dropped his bone and sprang at the Dog in the river, only to find himself swimming for dear life to reach the shore. At last he managed to scramble out, and as he stood sadly thinking about the good bone he had lost, he realized what a foolish Dog he had been.

What is the theme?

• Be honest.

• Always share your things with others.

• Don't be greedy.

• Be respectful to others.

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Where would one look to find the definition of a key word when reading a science textbook?

• the glossary

• the thesaurus

• the dictionary

• table of contents

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

According to the thesaurus entry below, what is a synonym for the word, “veteran?"

Veteran.— n. veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon.

• young man

• patriarch

• new

• novice

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C